Posts Tagged ‘heritage media’

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008

Newspapers are still lurching their way around the Web, a new study finds, but at least they are making some progress. The Bivings Group released a study today that quantifies the Website features of the top 100 newspapers in the U.S. Among the findings: Nearly [...]

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December 11, 2008 - 12:23 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow

Everyone knows that newspapers are in a state of decline, in large part due to the rise of online media. So, you would think that perhaps you’d see prominent new media execs joining the ranks of old media companies [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on December 8, 2008

The Pulitzer Prize Board, the governing body behind American journalism’s highest honor, has announced that online-only newspapers will now be eligible for the Prize. The announcement comes as many traditional media outlets are struggling - the Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy today and The New [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on November 27, 2008

The newspaper industry in the U.S. continues to shrink at an alarming rate. According to the Newspaper Association of America,, total industry advertising (both print and online) in the third quarter was $8.9 billion, down 18 percent from the year before. The online portion [...]

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By KEVIN KELLY
Published: November 21, 2008
Everywhere we look, we see screens. The other day I watched clips from a movie as I pumped gas into my car. The other night I saw a movie on the backseat of a plane. We will watch anywhere. Screens playing video pop up in the [...]

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by Bryan Murley, November 19, 2008
With the swift pace of change in the media landscape, it’s easy to overlook how far college news media has come in a short time. There has been some great innovation in college media, even as some lag behind.
I was prompted to reflect on this last month, after [...]

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by Simon Owens, November 17, 2008
Every year Locus Magazine, “The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field,” publishes a year-in-review of the genre. This summation always includes a rundown of the circulation of the remaining speculative fiction magazines, sometimes referred to as the “pulps” because of the cheap wood pulp paper on [...]

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November 15, 2008 - 5:38 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 8 Comments

You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the record labels or one or more form of Heritage media.  It’s honestly [...]

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by Mark Glaser, November 13, 2008
Bands do it. Filmmakers do it. President-elect Barack Obama made an artform out of it. “It” is crowdfunding, getting micro-donations through the Internet to help fund a venture. The question is whether crowdfunding can work on a larger scale to help fund traditional journalism, which is being hit [...]

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October 24, 2008 - 8:59 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 9 Comments
The Grey Lady, as it’s called, might possibly be in the winter of its lifetime. `According to Henry Blodget’s calculations, the New York Times is burning cash much quicker than it’s making it, and this year might end up defaulting on [...]